Lattice relaxation effects on the interface electron states in the perovskite oxide heterostructures: LaTiO3 monolayer embedded in SrTiO3

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 24, 2008, Pages

  Larson, P ^a,b   Popovic Z S ^a,c   Satpathy, S ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c Laboratory of Atomic Physics   (Serbia)

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EID: 45749126521     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.245122     Document Type: Article

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